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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.
Ontario Social Reform Party: 2018-2019: Populism [1] Parliamentary Freedom Party: 2018-2019: Party for Human Rights in Ontario: 2011: Party of Objective Truth: 2018-2019: Meritocratic social democracy [1] Pauper Party of Ontario Parti Pauvre de l'Ontario: 2011-before 2022 election: Social credit, Libertarianism [3] People First Republican Party ...
In 1985, this era of Conservative Premiers (termed the Big Blue Machine by observers) came to an end when the minority government of Davis' successor, Frank Miller, was defeated in the legislature and in the subsequent provincial election when the Ontario Liberal Party formed a minority government and the Liberal leader, David Peterson, was ...
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, in contrast, saw a large increase in seats (and a modest increase in votes) obtaining 76/124 possible seats and roughly 41% of the popular vote. The New Democratic Party of Ontario, considered the main opponents to the PC's this election, saw a significant increase in both votes and seats in the ...
The 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on March 10, 2018, [1] [2] due to the resignation of party leader Patrick Brown on January 25, 2018, following allegations of sexual misconduct. [3] Winner Doug Ford narrowly defeated runner-up Christine Elliott on the third ballot with 50.6% of allocated points.
The Reform Party of Canada was founded on a strongly right-wing populist conservative platform as an alternative voice for these western conservatives. The Progressive Conservative Party lost a large base of its support toward the end of the Mulroney era.
The party's 76,587 members [1] were eligible to cast votes by preferential ballot.The vote will be weighted so that each of the province's 107 ridings that has more than 100 votes cast are allocated 100 electoral votes; [2] ridings in which fewer than 100 party members vote will not be weighted, but will instead have the votes counted as individual votes. [3]
In the June 2018 Ontario general election, the Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) led by Doug Ford won a strong majority government. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Andrea Horwath became the Official Opposition ; this was the first time since 1990 they surpassed their third-place status.